As the saying goes, Scrum is easy, Implementing Scrum is hard. My CSM course taught that Teams go through transitions during Scrum adoption and it typically follows the phases of forming, storming, norming and performing: Forming: doing something new is always fun,...

This video is a bit long (just over an hour) but well worth it if you are new to Scrum. Jeff Sutherland is the Co-Creator of Scrum and talks about why it’s so important to properly implement Scrum to achieve success with your projects. It’s a great insight...

Day 3 was all about Teams and the Scrum Master role. Had a couple of exercises that were pretty simple, but they were probably more simple to figure out after a few days of training. There were a couple of really key points that are going to help me and my company...

Day 2 was a great one for me and the material today helped quite a bit with some stuff I was struggling with. Of course I now realize I was struggling with some of this stuff because we weren’t really applying the Scrum principals properly. So let’s recap...

The most important thing I learned today is that Scrum is NOT a best practice. There are rules for properly implementing Scrum and if you don’t follow these rules because you don’t like them, you are not doing Scrum. You may still be Agile, but...